Transforming Higher Education with Digital Credentials
Empower student success and enhance your institution's branding and programs with unique digital credentials, ensuring long-term protection of learner data.
Four Reasons Why Higher Education Institutions Adopt a Digital Credential Platform
With BCdiploma, issue academic badges and digital certificates in addition or complementary to your paper-based credentials and discover the benefits of digital credentials: streamline and secure your credentialing process, empower your students' careers, drive your programs' growth and engage your students and alumni.
Save up to 90% of your time and costs
Easily create and design your digital certificates and badges with our unique Creator Tool or our in-house design services. Issue verifiable credentials to your learners, in 3 clicks via Excel upload or automatically using our APIs and automate delivery to your students with secure processes. Eliminate the time spent on archiving and handling incoming diploma inquiries – from recruiter verifications to reissuing lost credentials for alumni. Unify your paper and digital processes and optimize your delivery times with ready-to-print certificates and diplomas, secured with a QR code, to prepare for your graduate ceremony.
With BCdiploma, you streamline your entire process, saving up to 90% in time and costs. Focus on what truly matters – providing quality education and supporting your students – while we handle the operational complexities of credentials management.
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Elevate your students success and employability
Boost your students' success by offering enriched, multi-lingual credentials, micro-credentials, and academic badges as they complete courses and work toward their degrees. With secure credential sharing on professional networks, such as LinkedIn, and one-click access and verification, you enable them to enhance their resumes, showcase their skills and achievements effectively to potential employers.and significantly increase the visibility of their LinkedIn profiles.
Eliminate bottlenecks with instant digital certificates.Traditional paper diplomas can take months to be issued, leaving students stuck in limbo during crucial recruitment or administrative processes, such as visa applications, where official proof of their degree is required. With BCdiploma, these delays are a thing of the past. Our digital diplomas are issued instantly upon jury approval, providing students with secure, verified credentials they can immediately use, eliminating waiting time and empowering students to move forward swiftly and confidently in their professional and academic journeys.
Turn your credentials into powerful marketing assets with our unique technology
Our digital badges and certificates are fully customizable, allowing you to create branded credentials that highlight your institution's image and prestige. With 60% of our credentials being shared on professional social networks, they serve as significant marketing assets, enhancing the visibility of your school and promoting your programs to a broader audience.
Unlike other providers, we offer the market's only 100% white-label solution. Our credentials are displayed full-page, mobile-first, within your own ecosystem and under your own domain name. This unique approach allows your institution to maintain complete control over its brand image, transforming your credentials into powerful organic marketing tools. By driving qualified traffic directly to your site, these credentials become excellent instruments for organically promoting your school and its programs, boosting visibility and engagement like never before.
Empower your institution and learners with complete sovereignty and ownership
In stark contrast to centralized platforms that display your credentials within their own branded ecosystems and lock your data in, creating dependency, BCdiploma guarantees absolute sovereignty over your data and credentials. With BCdiploma, you are not just another tenant in a centralized system; you are the master of your own ecosystem.
Thanks to our advanced decentralized technology, learners have full ownership of their credentials for life. This not only protects your institution’s integrity but also empowers your learners with permanent, verifiable proof of their accomplishments. With BCdiploma, your learners’ achievements belong to themselves. Your data and image belongs to you.
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The Five Different Types Of Digital Credentials And How Can They Be Used
How can Digital Credential Management Software help you cover all the innovative uses of credentialing in academia, from digital badges to comprehensive learning pathways? Discover BCdiploma, a solution that supports all credential formats and guarantees interoperability with industry standards. We provide expert support from EdTech professionals who assist leading HigherEd organizations.
Digital certificates for higher education
Digital certificates are the next evolution in credentialing for academic institutions, transforming traditional paper certificates into secure, verifiable, and portable digital assets. The array of digital certificates is extensive, encompassing Certificates of Completion, Certificates of Achievement, Professional Certificates, and both Graduate and Undergraduate Certificates. Comprehensive University Credential Frameworks, such as that of Stanford Online, illustrate the variety and necessity of these credentials.
Issuing digital versions of these documents is essential to overcome challenges related to security, portability, authenticity, and verifiability. BCdiploma's cutting-edge technology addresses these issues by providing a seamless, cost-effective solution for academic institutions. Our digital credentials are easily shareable, instantly provable, and eliminate the logistical burdens of physical mailing and re-issuance.
BCdiploma is a leader in assisting institutions of all sizes with their digital transformation projects. Our expertise ensures immediate cost savings for registrars and academic teams while significantly enhancing service quality for students. By adopting our digital certificates platform, your institution can stay ahead in the rapidly evolving learning market, offering students the secure and trustworthy credentials they need for their careers.
Digital diplomas for higher education
The stakes surrounding the digitalization of traditional official diplomas are enormous. The academic sector views it as a powerful solution to combat the rampant issue of fake diplomas. Employers favor these verifiable e-diplomas, which eliminate the need for costly background checks and reference verifications through agencies. Students and graduates see them as a critical tool to secure job opportunities, expedite the recruitment process, and advance their careers.
The official nature of these documents demands the highest level of digital security. BCdiploma, with its patented decentralized method, provides this security, enabling the world's most prestigious organizations to protect the value of their brand. Our digital diplomas are not just secure; they are also instantly verifiable and shareable, making them indispensable for modern certification.
BCdiploma empowers institutions to lead in the fight against diploma fraud, ensuring that every credential issued is authentic and tamper-proof. By adopting our tech, your institution can provide students and graduates with the peace of mind that their achievements are recognized and respected globally. Elevate your institution's credibility and support your students' career aspirations with BCdiploma’s cutting-edge digital diplomas.
Digital badges for higher education
Digital badges offer a simple and enjoyable way to acknowledge achievements, commonly used for recognizing soft skills, seminar participation, quiz completion, and program engagement. These badges feature diverse designs, shapes, and colors to signify various levels of accomplishment. The image associated with a digital badge, often confused with the badge itself, has gained popularity due to widespread sharing on social and professional networks.
Organizations leverage digital badges to incentivize students and recognize their engagement in a fun and engaging manner. Benefiting from the international Open Badges standard, these badges ensure interoperability and use across various platforms. BCdiploma's digital badges are certified by 1EdTech and can be designed in just a few clicks using our intuitive badging platform.
Additionally, BCdiploma's digital badges can be seamlessly integrated with popular Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as Moodle and EdX. This integration ensures that issuing and managing badges is straightforward and efficient, enhancing the learning experience and engagement for students. By adopting BCdiploma's digital badges, your institution can create a dynamic and motivating environment that highlights and celebrates student achievements.
Micro-credentials for higher education
Micro-credentials are digital attestations of specific skills, knowledge, or expertise, designed to offer a flexible and personalized learning experience. They can take the form of a digital badge or a digital certificate and are typically associated with smaller learning units than traditional qualifications. This allows for enhanced flexibility and personalization in educational pathways.
Stackable micro-credentials can be accumulated and integrated into broader learning journeys, potentially leading to formal qualifications. They are valuable tools for making lifelong learning visible and meaningful, recognizing both formal and non-formal training paths. Increasingly, micro-credentials facilitate student and worker mobility by validating and documenting skills in a transparent and provable manner. They are also closely linked to the concept of micro-learning, which focuses on shorter, targeted learning pathways designed to meet the evolving needs of the labor market and society.
Micro-credentials projects are rapidly expanding in the academic world. BCdiploma is a longstanding technical partner of eCampusOntario, a leading player in the design of micro-credential frameworks. For example, the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies offers Micro Courses that enable students to earn Micro-credentials issued via BCdiploma. As described by the University of Toronto - School of Continuing Studies :
Micro-credentials are digital representations of the competencies or skills that you have achieved by completing a micro course. They are tamper-proof, verifiable, blockchain-based, and 100% digital. They can be shared on social media, including LinkedIn and Facebook, embedded in websites, or downloaded as PDFs. Micro-credentials offer an innovative new way to showcase your competencies and skills to colleagues, managers, and potential employers.
Learning pathway and stackable credentials for higher education
The recent rise of micro-credentialing, lifelong learning and executive training within highered institutions has given birth to the concept of stackable credentials and reinforced the need for a comprehensive learning pathway. These innovations complement each other and require the latest credentials technologies to be effective.
Stackable Credentials can be earned over an extended period and must be available to be grouped together to qualify for a program or degree. They offer flexibility and personalization in educational journeys, allowing learners to build toward formal qualifications incrementally. Learning Pathways are meta-credentials granting access to all the stackable credentials an individual has acquired, including badges, micro-credentials, and digital certificates. They summarize and showcase all acquired skills and knowledge in one cohesive view.
BCdiploma, with its unique learning pathway functionality, supports institutions by enhancing e-diplomas and digital certificates. This functionality makes all intermediate credentials earned by students directly accessible. When these credentials describe and detail the professional skills acquired, learning pathways serve as next-generation diploma supplements.This approach offers individuals a significant advantage for their employability and career advancement. By providing a clear, detailed summary of their educational achievements, learning pathways make it easier for employers to recognize and verify the skills and knowledge of potential hires. Empower your institution with BCdiploma's advanced technologies to offer a seamless, comprehensive view of your learners' accomplishments and support their lifelong learning and career progression.
The Future of Digital Credentials in HigherEd Sector in 3 Questions
At the core of BCdiploma's mission is the goal of providing organizations with a next-generation credentialing platform that is interoperable with industry standards and leverages Web3 technologies. This decentralization results in a credential-centric solution: your credentials, in white-label format, are directly verifiable without the need for a third-party branded verification system, and without default retention or tracking of your graduates' information.
As EdTech experts in academic information systems, we have designed a digital credentials platform to save you time in the daily management of your academic credentials and automate processes from your LMS and SIS. Our solution empowers institutions to maintain full control over their credentials, ensuring they are secure, provable, and easily shareable.
Most platforms now offer a blockchain credentials option, but the reality of the services provided varies widely. In the academic sector, it is widely acknowledged that this innovation brings crucial elements to credentials, such as security, immutability, transparency, trust, decentralization, efficiency, and enhanced student control. Additionally, major ecosystems of W3C VC now use decentralized registers to secure their issuer registries.
BCdiploma, founded in 2017 with the advent of smart contracts, stands out among major credentialing actors as the only decentralized native solution. Unlike traditional centralized platforms, BCdiploma does not rely on a centralized database. Instead, BCdiploma has patented a protocol that enables the issuance of credentials that are valid for life, without retaining learner information. Our platform eliminates the need for a centralized database, which means no retention or tracking of your students' information. This gives institutions and students full ownership and control over their credentials. Each digital credential is immutable and accessible for life, regardless of what happens to BCdiploma. This ensures that students' achievements are permanently secure and confirmable, providing a lifelong benefit that traditional credentials systems cannot match.
By leveraging this innovative tech, BCdiploma ensures that digital credentials are not only secure and tamper-proof but also easily shareable and verifiable, enhancing the overall trust and reliability of academic and professional qualifications. This approach aligns with the evolving needs of the global academic and job markets, providing a robust solution for modern credentialing challenges.
There is often confusion between blockchain, a security technology, and Web3, which offers a comprehensive and mature new internet ecosystem. BCdiploma, a pioneer in web3 credentials for highered, guides you through this revolution. All credentials issued through our platform can be issued as non-transferable NFTs. BCdiploma also offers a student wallet, ensuring compatibility with usual wallets. But that's not all. BCdiploma offers open-source libraries that enable these NFT credentials and diplomas to function as lifelong login identifiers, without the need for an underlying directory.
Does this sound complex? Simply imagine being able to create lifelong accessible pages and services for your alumni, accessible through their diploma or credential. Additionally, your partners can offer exclusive services to your alumni without needing access to your graduate database. To learn more, you can consult our guide: NFT Credentials in Academics: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started.
With a globalized job market and internationally renowned academic institutions, the interoperability of credentials has become a major issue in the Edtech world. By adhering to these standards and norms, educational institutions can ensure that their digital credentials are interoperable, verifiable, and widely recognized, facilitating student mobility and lifelong learning across different platforms and regions.
Open Badges is a standard published by 1EdTech (formerly known as the IMS Global Learning Consortium). Widely adopted for digital badges, featuring a rich open-source ecosystem. This standard includes metadata about the credential, ensuring transparency and interoperability across different platforms.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has developed the W3C VC standard, which enables the creation of interoperable digital credentials that can be cryptographically verified. This standard supports a wide range of credential types, ensuring they can be securely shared and trusted across different platforms and use cases. Notably, the latest version of Open Badges, v3, adheres to this standard. W3C VC are the foundation of significant institutional projects, such as the European Infrastructure EBSI and the Digital Credentials Consortium (DCC).
The European Commission launched the third version of its European Learning Model in 2023 (ELM v.3), a multilingual data model for learning, knowledge, and skills. This model opens new possibilities for interoperability and credential exchange, further enhancing the recognition and portability of digital credentials across Europe and beyond.